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  • Title: Responses of cerebellar neurons of the CF-FM bat, Pteronotus parnellii to acoustic stimuli.
    Author: Jen PH, Sun X, Kamada T.
    Journal: Brain Res; 1982 Dec 02; 252(1):167-71. PubMed ID: 7172019.
    Abstract:
    Single units (125) which faithfully discharged action potentials to acoustic stimuli (35 ms in duration with 0.5 ms rise and decay times) were recorded in the cerebellar vermis and hemispheres of the CF-FM bat, Pteronotus parnellii. These units had response latencies between 1.5 and 27 ms and minimum thresholds between 2 and 83.5 dB SPL. Best frequencies (BFs) of these units ranged from 30.32 to 79.28 kHz, but more than half (64 units, 51.2%) were between 59.73 and 63.32 kHz. While most tuning curves of these units were either broad or irregular, those curves with BFs tuned at around 61 kHz which is the frequency of the predominant CF component of the bat's echolocation signals were extremely narrow with Q10-dB values as high as 153. Those units (29) with BFs tuned near the 61 kHz also showed off-responses. These data indicate that auditory specialization for processing of species-specific orientation signals also exists in the cerebellum of this bat.
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